MLS loan move could be Striker’s saving grace
Pierre Emerick Aubameyang: Could be MLS bound till the end of the season
By Edwin Emeanua-Editor
Pierre Emerick Aubameyang failed to make Chelsea’s manager Graham Potter’s team for the last two consecutive games, the last time against West Ham on Saturday placing his stay at the London club in doubt.
Aubameyang was linked with a move to the MLS with Los Angeles FC recently, a move that might yet offer the former Arsenal skipper an escape route from his current career blues. The American club reportedly held talks with Chelsea over a possible loan deal for the striker until the end of the season.
The UK Express reported that Aubameyang also reportedly turned down the MSL loan offer from LAFC prefering to fight for his place on the Chelsea squad, but, the turn of events appers to suggest that he is being gradually forced out of Stamford Bridge.
Aubameyang’s Chelsea future looks bleak having been cut from the Chelsea’s Champions League team at the begining of the month.
The former FC Barcelona of Spain forward has been gradually frozen out of the squad since Potter’s arrival at Stamford Bridge as Chelsea boss.
The Gabon international has been a misfiring forward since his arrival from Barcelona this summer and his persistent loss of form has seen things go from bad to worse since his return to the premier league.
Potter’s decision to drop Aubayang from his squad again for Saturday’s encounter with West Ham United at the London Stadium gives ascendancy to rumours that the former Arsenal striker could be on his way out of Stamford Bridge this summer.
The former Borrusia Dotmund striker was one of only three fit Chelsea players missing in Potter’s 20-man squad to the Hammers game.
The others are Kalidou Koulibaly and Lewis Hall who were also left out on the team. Though not also in the team, Raheem Sterling appears to been rested by Potter after sustaining a training injury earlier during the week.
Aubameyang has been played in just 116 minutes of Premier League football since the begining of January and even failed to make the bench in his side’s goalless draw with Fulham at home, marking a remarkable turnaround for the 33-year-old striker.
Things have only continued to go downhill for Aubameyang on Saturday when he was dropped from Potter’s group for the second time in a row against West Ham, leaving his future at the club in a no-man’s-land.
